It has been done before. See the DSpace documentation on the "package
importer and exporter", or on the "item importer and exporter. Those
tools are part of DSpace. I believe that the former is meant to
replace the latter, at some time in the future.
DSpace 1.5 will also have an additional webapplication, the
Lightweight Network Interface, which could be used to build batch
loading tools, and support for something called SWORD which seems to
be a similar approach. I do not know of any published tools which use
these interfaces, but I have not yet gone looking for any.
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Hi guys,
first of all, sorry for my bad english.
I just start my career draft order that consist on a recomendations
system based in user profiles, for DSpace.
I'm working whit this repository by first time and i'm very noob. My
problem is the following:
I have a large volume of files on PDF format and I need to upload them
to DSpace. The one way that i know is by Administrator's Interface, but
is very annoying doing it one file by one. Is there any way to more
quickly upload files?
I have thought develop a small application to try insert them directly
into the database. Would this be possible?.
Someone has done something similar?
Thanks.

Hello,
When trying to install DSpace 1.5, beta2 from source
(https://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dspace/tags/dspace-1_5-beta2/),
building fails at the "ant fresh_install" stage with the following error
message:
[java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/dspace/browse/IndexBrowse
Does anyone know how this should be fixed?
Thanks,
Lynna

Hi all,
I downloaded the 1.5 beta2 code that was released Sunday and this has solved our problem. We did receive some (non-critical) oracle errors, but the build was successful and everything looks to be in order. Graham, thanks for your help on this...
Sharon

(Moving this to -tech.)
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Conal Tuohy <conal.tuohy@...> wrote:
> I would like to post the Aspects somewhere public - perhaps on the
> DSpace Wiki as zipped attachments? I will hold off doing anything with
> them for a few days, until there's been some discussion about where best
> to put them. But if anyone is particularly interested I'm happy to email
> them to whoever wants them.
Yes, please and thank you!
> NB all of our Aspects are very small, and all are pure XSLT. I posted
> one of them to this list (the breadcrumb trail Aspect) a few weeks ago
> as an example.
I see a big future in XSLT Aspects... Java ones break my brain.
> > - make authors and subjects clickable on item and browse pages
>
> I would love to see this.
I've turned it into a HOWTO. It's not hard, but the URL-encoding bit
is important and non-obvious.
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Make_author_and_subject_links_clickable_%28Manakin%29
Dorothea
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Christian, many thanks for your advice.
I'll check the server logs
(and apologize to the Dspace-Tech listserv for asking a question that
doesn't appear to be related to Dspace)
Alvin
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Voelker [mailto:C.Voelker@...]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:27 PM
To: Hutchinson, Alvin
Cc: dspace-tech@...
Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] OAI Validation Problem - HTTP 500
Hello,
Am 10.03.2008 um 15:17 schrieb Hutchinson, Alvin:
> Can anyone tell me what might be the problem with my attempt at OAI
> validation? The email response I received from the Openarchives.org
> registration site is below.
I guess the comment from the error log is misleading. The best way
to resolve this will be a trip to your servers logs. I am dealing
with the OAI Interface of our own repository in the last weeks
which makes me read these commands and understand them immediately
right now. I will probably forget about within some weeks.
But, in general the OAI commands called verbs are very simple.
> I don't know whether it is a problem with oaicat.properties and
> resumptionToken or that my server is just not configured correctly.
If there were a problem with the oaicat.properties, then the
answer to this request would look different, e.g. if you would
have forgotten to run install-configs, then the email address
would look strange. It does not, so everything is fine here.
Compare with the result of "Identify" from other repositories.
<http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace-oai/request?verb=Identify&gt;
The resumption token is not an issue, as your server does not
ever reach the point where a resumption token would be expected.
The test was designed to discover problems with resumption tokens
which explains why the error log mentions it. Forget about it.
> In any case, the validation request returns an HTTP 500 error.
This is the real problem: Your server responds with a HTTP 500
to a valid request. This fault is reproducible. But, this is the
only request where your server fails. Strange. I tried to replace
ListRecords with ListIdentifiers which delivers a shortened form
of the same stuff: It works fine. Requesting a single Item works
fine too. Which means that all other basic functions work besides
ListRecords.
<http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefi
x=oai_dc
>
<http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataP
refix=oai_dc
>
<http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace-oai/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=
oai_dc&identifier=oai:si-pddr.si.edu:10088/29
>
If your dspace.log doesnt give you a hint, take a very close look
at the catalina.log or whatever the tomcat logs are called on your
system. Logging tends to be configured to be very quiet per default
for Tomcat. You might need to change your configuration nd hit the
link again to find useful information. You can change this at the
very end of your conf/server.xml and you can tune the behaviour
in conf/logging.properties.
> When I tried the Repository Explorer as suggested in the email, my
> site
> seems to validate fine.
I can hardly believe this. When I tried first I thought this service
is hanging. It does in rare cases but it actually did not then.
Instead, it takes really long to complete, I mean really long.
It might take five Minutes or more and it performs around fourty
checks or so. And it will definitely perform this one and will
fail with that too. I am off until next week. Post back to the
list with more questions.
Hope you are lucky, Christian

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:09:47PM +0000, floriana perrucci wrote:
> E-mail address: aspire1500@...<mailto:aspire1500@...>
Is this actually the email address you input? If so, it's incorrect, and
you should only input your actual email address without the mailto:
stuff.
cheers,
Jim
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